UK government urged to cash in on waste Rather than seeing waste as a problem, the government should consider it a valuable resource, says a report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.

The value of trust When Philip Nelson becomes chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in April, he has to convince government to increase investment in research and to to win back the trust of the very scientists that the council funds.

Academic Research Available Free at U.K. Libraries The Publishers Licensing Society announced the start of a 2-year pilot project, Access to Research, which brings more than 1.5 million academic research articles and conference proceedings to all public libraries in the U.K.